Re: [Swarm-Support] Problems in compiling latest source

[Bill Northcott]

Those errors are not ones I am seeing with more recent versions of  
autoconf.  The autoheader WARNINGS are the same but they are not show  
stoppers.

I have committed to the CVS autotool changes which should allow Swarm  
to build on a recent Linux system.   They are not yet sufficient for  
the Mac because there are problems with the BSD version of getopt and  
friends vs the GNU style assumptions in Swarm.  I have tested these  
changes with Autoconf 2.57/Automake 1.6.3 but more recent version may  
also work.

Bill Northcott

On 21/01/2004, at 3:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I think the answer is:
>
> use autoconf-2.52 and automake-1.6.3
>
> Francesco Pappalardo wrote:
>
> > Ok. I have downloaded the latest source code of Swarm from CVS  
> > repository.
> > Then I run autogen.sh, configure and make.
> > In compiling time I have got the following:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ----------
> > cd . && /bin/sh /home/francesco/SWARM/swarm/missing --run autoheader
> > WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
> > WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
> > WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
> >
> > WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
> > WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
> > WARNING: `acconfig.h':
> >
> > WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
> > WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
> >
> > WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
> > WARNING: documentation.
> > touch ./externvar.h.in
> > cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status externvar.h
> > config.status: creating externvar.h
> > config.status: externvar.h is unchanged
> > make  all-recursive
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/francesco/SWARM/swarm'
> > Making all in libobjc
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/francesco/SWARM/swarm/libobjc'
> > Makefile:385: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/francesco/SWARM/swarm/libobjc'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/francesco/SWARM/swarm'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ----------
> >
> > The same type of error is produced when I try to use the source code  
> > version
> > 2.1.147.
> > So, what can I do?